Just thinking, what is EXTREME intolerance?????
Considering India is home to 15% of world's population, how should we decide if the intolerance is extreme? Should India be above world average in intolerance to be called extreme? I think that is a fair MINIMUM, for a developing country, just to qualify to become above world average, let alone to qualify as ''extreme'', eh?
Lets see, the two areas that are in limelight are
- Religious intolerance
- Ideological intolerance (using force against intellectuals)
Its clear that on both counts, it would seem that intolerance in India is waaaay below world average. For religious intolerance, only last week 40 shias were killed in tiny Pakistan next door (against one or two lynchings in India this year), and against three murders of intellectuals in the last two years in India, tiny Bangladesh next door has hacked to death some 4-5 intellectuals this year itself...
I'm not even going into the religious sh]tstorm in the middle east and africa... or the wholesale murder of cartoonists in France or the subsequent attacks on Jews there etc etc...
So what is extreme??? Can someone tell me what is extreme about the situation in India??? Why is this perception being created??? Whose bidding are we doing these days, wittingly or unwittingly?